Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 227 284
Rank change year-on-year -72 +57 -65
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 511 543 904
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 1.33% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.43% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 213 306 511
10th Percentile £42,699 £45,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,745 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,510 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £92,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £116,860 £103,125 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,485 38,072 78,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.40% 93.03% 86.34%
Number of salaries quoted 37,986 22,481 58,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -11.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,321 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% -8.41%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 4 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 4 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -58 469 £67,750 -3.21% 221
London +38 282 £85,000 +13.33% 105
Work from Home +54 238 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -159 176 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -48 59 £74,000 -7.50% 31
North West -19 36 £82,500 +3.06% 16
Midlands -59 34 £61,538 -1.54% 19
South East -126 32 £55,000 -15.38% 47
East of England -7 25 £61,300 -5.69% 21
West Midlands -22 25 £57,500 -8.00% 11
Yorkshire -45 20 £63,076 +94.08% 13
South West -60 18 £62,500 -3.29% 12
East Midlands -51 9 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 1
Scotland -36 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
North East -24 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2
Wales - 3 £69,501 - 6

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 16 (3.13%) Confluence
3 11 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.39%) CICS
5 2 (0.39%) CMS
5 2 (0.39%) MTS
6 1 (0.20%) Drupal
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (6.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 21 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.59%) Trello
6 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 19 (3.72%) Workfront
2 8 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.59%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (12.72%) AWS
2 62 (12.13%) SaaS
3 46 (9.00%) Azure
4 33 (6.46%) iPaaS
5 21 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.72%) Pulumi
7 17 (3.33%) GitHub
8 14 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
10 12 (2.35%) GCP
11 9 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.76%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.57%) H2O.ai
12 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.57%) PaaS
13 5 (0.98%) Asana
13 5 (0.98%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.78%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.78%) Miro
15 3 (0.59%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 58 (11.35%) Broadband
2 17 (3.33%) HTTP
3 9 (1.76%) SD-WAN
3 9 (1.76%) WAN
4 6 (1.17%) LAN
4 6 (1.17%) RTP
5 4 (0.78%) NGN
6 3 (0.59%) Multicast
6 3 (0.59%) Network Security
6 3 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.59%) Wireless
7 2 (0.39%) Firewall
7 2 (0.39%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Skype
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.41%) Metadata
2 20 (3.91%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.91%) Power BI
2 20 (3.91%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.91%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.37%) Tableau
5 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.59%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.39%) Big Data
7 2 (0.39%) DB2
8 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (4.89%) JIRA
2 19 (3.72%) Jaeger
3 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.20%) Git
3 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.20%) Selenium
General
1 189 (36.99%) Finance
2 168 (32.88%) Social Skills
3 149 (29.16%) Marketing
4 92 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (14.48%) Banking
6 65 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (11.15%) Retail
8 52 (10.18%) Law
9 41 (8.02%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (7.83%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (7.24%) Legal
12 30 (5.87%) Financial Institution
13 28 (5.48%) Back Office
13 28 (5.48%) Public Sector
14 22 (4.31%) Manufacturing
15 19 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
16 17 (3.33%) Digital Economy
17 12 (2.35%) Italian Language
18 11 (2.15%) Automotive
18 11 (2.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 139 (27.20%) Product Manager
2 75 (14.68%) Senior
3 73 (14.29%) Lead
4 52 (10.18%) Product Owner
5 39 (7.63%) Senior Manager
6 33 (6.46%) Senior Product Manager
7 21 (4.11%) Product Lead
8 20 (3.91%) Developer
9 18 (3.52%) Consultant
9 18 (3.52%) Development Engineer
9 18 (3.52%) Software Engineer
10 17 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
11 14 (2.74%) Change Manager
11 14 (2.74%) Digital Product Manager
11 14 (2.74%) Product Management Director
12 13 (2.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Senior Development Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 13 (2.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (2.35%) Business Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.91%) REST
2 19 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.57%) Keras
3 8 (1.57%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
3 8 (1.57%) YAML
4 3 (0.59%) .NET
4 3 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (0.39%) CSS
5 2 (0.39%) HTML
5 2 (0.39%) Spring
5 2 (0.39%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.20%) JSON
6 1 (0.20%) Next.js
6 1 (0.20%) Playwright
6 1 (0.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.20%) SOAP
6 1 (0.20%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (24.85%) Product Ownership
2 45 (8.81%) Social Media
3 35 (6.85%) Marketing Technology
4 34 (6.65%) Over-the-Top Content
5 31 (6.07%) Onboarding
5 31 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (5.68%) Cloud Native
7 26 (5.09%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.52%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.37%) Data Fabric
12 7 (1.37%) Podcast
13 6 (1.17%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.17%) IoT
13 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
13 6 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.50%) Linux
2 19 (3.72%) Unix
3 6 (1.17%) Windows
4 2 (0.39%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (57.53%) Roadmaps
2 239 (46.77%) Agile
3 142 (27.79%) Product Roadmap
4 110 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 109 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 107 (20.94%) Product Vision
7 104 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (19.57%) AI
9 96 (18.79%) Product Strategy
10 95 (18.59%) Decision-Making
11 94 (18.40%) Mentoring
12 81 (15.85%) User Stories
13 70 (13.70%) Customer Experience
14 69 (13.50%) User Experience
15 66 (12.92%) Analytics
16 65 (12.72%) Product Backlog
17 61 (11.94%) Business Development
17 61 (11.94%) Coaching
17 61 (11.94%) Product Requirements
18 59 (11.55%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.02%) Java
1 41 (8.02%) Python
2 25 (4.89%) JavaScript
3 20 (3.91%) Go
3 20 (3.91%) SQL
4 19 (3.72%) Bash
5 8 (1.57%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.17%) Bicep
7 3 (0.59%) C#
7 3 (0.59%) R
8 2 (0.39%) COBOL
8 2 (0.39%) JCL
8 2 (0.39%) PHP
8 2 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (17.42%) Degree
2 31 (6.07%) Master's Degree
3 25 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.50%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.13%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.98%) MBA
10 4 (0.78%) CISSP
10 4 (0.78%) HNC
11 3 (0.59%) CCNA
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.59%) PMP
12 2 (0.39%) ACCA
12 2 (0.39%) CIMA
12 2 (0.39%) CISM
12 2 (0.39%) CRISC
12 2 (0.39%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.89%) QA
2 11 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.76%) NCSC
5 8 (1.57%) NIST
6 7 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.37%) GDPR
7 5 (0.98%) PMO
8 4 (0.78%) SLA
9 3 (0.59%) IFRS
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.59%) PERC
10 2 (0.39%) COREP
10 2 (0.39%) FINREP
10 2 (0.39%) GRC
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.39%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (6.07%) Terraform
2 23 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.72%) Ansible
3 19 (3.72%) Argo
3 19 (3.72%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.72%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.22%) Adobe
3 34 (6.65%) Google
4 12 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.76%) Oracle
6 8 (1.57%) Databricks
6 8 (1.57%) Dell
6 8 (1.57%) NVIDIA
7 6 (1.17%) Foundry
8 5 (0.98%) Cisco
9 4 (0.78%) Facebook
9 4 (0.78%) Toshiba
9 4 (0.78%) YouTube
10 3 (0.59%) Apple
10 3 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.59%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.59%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.59%) Sage
10 3 (0.59%) Tenable
10 3 (0.59%) Trayport